2015 Archive Stories Blog: Letters to the Editor

Re: “Rattlesnakes” [Focus, March 21]: Where is the crucial part of the Register’s article that reminds readers how to avoid snakebites in the first place? Pointers:
1. If you see a snake, do not ever attempt to harm or kill it. At least 85 percent of all snakebites are the result of such actions. Besides which, all nati

Gov. Jerry Brown offered his opinion on “Meet the Press” that Sen. Ted Cruz is unfit to be running for president based upon the latter’s “ignorant” comments about global warming alarmists.
Does anyone else find it oddly coincidental that Gov. Brown believes that the $68 billion train he so forcefully pushes

As a retired research scientist, the only quibble that I have with Stephen Moore’s excellent “Myth of ‘settled science’” [Opinion, March 15] is that he doesn’t take issue with the use of the term “climate change” by environmentalists as being synonymous with anthropogenic global warming. Climate ch

Re: “Moorlach closing in on win” [Local, March 19]: The political scene in Orange County is just fraught with disappointment nowadays, but the election of John Moorlach to the 37th District State Senate seat gives me such hope for the future. Those who voted for John Moorlach were not deterred by his opposition’s deceptive ads,

I totally support the U.S. assisting Israel in defending itself. I also would like to see a two-state solution with Palestine, which has been a tenet of the U.S. and U.N. for decades. I remember and appreciate an old quote that stated, “they’re stuck between a two-state solution that’s too hard to implement and too important to

Re: “Years of lax regulation have allowed fronts for prostitution to grow” [Front page, March 12]: If human trafficking is involved with any massage business, every legal means to address and eliminate the exploitation and the abuses should occur. But if no trafficking exists, then government should take a hands-off (no pun intended)

“Any Iran deal needs Senate ratification” [Editorial, March 12], while stating the facts about the Republican senators’ letter to the Iranian government, is disingenuous at best when it claims, “Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement.” Indeed, it is how the Senate feels about executive agree

Re: “Judge kicks D.A.’s office off Dekraai case” [Front page, March 13]: Once again, the people of Orange County are embarrassed by the person they elected to be their District Attorney. A self-confessed mass murderer and his attorney have been sand-bagged so ridiculously by our D.A. that the trial judge ordered the D.A. off th

It was extremely disappointing for me as a proud Muslim American woman to hear that a group of students at a public university could show such disdain toward our flag and vote for it to be removed. They must know that it is a public university funded by the taxpayers – some of whom pledge allegiance to that very flag each and every day bec

Re: “Don’t put O.C. toll lanes to a vote” [Editorial, March 9]: Restricting pay lanes on the I-405 is not misguided because after spending $1.3 billion to rebuild the bridges, we will have the same number of free lanes we have today. Measure M clearly stated that one lane was to be added. If one lane is added, and the free high

One thing missing from the stories on Chinese families desiring to have an child born in the USA is that preserving their private property is a motivation driving many to come here. In the family memory of those in China is the loss of their effects and savings when the communists took over. They wish to have an escape plan to a country with the

Re: “UCI student council unlikely to ban the U.S. flag again” [Local, March 10]: I’m relieved the UC Irvine Executive Cabinet vetoed the student council ban on the display of the American flag in their lobby. However, the original mandate indicates the uninformed and biased views of history by a vocal minority. Matthew Guevara,

The leadership of the GOP, along with the Democrats, decided to cede all legislative authority to President Obama by funding the Department of Homeland Security without any constraints [“House votes to fund Homeland Security,” Front page, March 4].
This so-called clean bill just gave money to the president to spend any way he

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech was before Congress, but the actual target was the American people. Most acknowledge that Iran is the world’s largest supporter of terrorism, that it calls for the total destruction of Israel, is testing ICBMs that eventually will be capable of reaching the U.S. and that IAEA inspectors have been den

Re: “So far, no compelled psychiatric treatment” [Front page, Feb. 15]: Court-ordered outpatient treatment laws, like Laura’s Law, have consistently been found to improve the quality of life for at-risk individuals with serious mental illness while reducing the public health costs associated with denying access to treatment for